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Thursday, December 2, 2010

An Ad Telling it Like it Is

If you read my post a few days ago on ghostwriters & plagiarists, you already know my stance on this issue. Whoever posted this is my hero:

To all the students who want someone to write their papers
Date: 2010-12-02, 5:53PM EST
Reply to: see below

When did the writing/editing section become a place for lazy students to find other people to do their homework? If you don't want to learn anything, stop taking up space that could go to people who actually value an education. We already attended school. We finished our homework. We're professionals who are looking for real jobs. Get off your lazy asses and do your assignments. I sometimes have the urge to respond to your ads -- just to collect enough information to pass along to your professors and school administration. Then you can flunk out, relax and be as stupid and lazy as you want to be, indefinitely.

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I've responded to some of these culprits & threatened to report them to their school administrators & deans. Not to mention saying that they'd better not be trying to join the legal field since this kind of thing is a HUGE ethics violation that no state Character & Fitness committee would let you get away with. Oh, and do these schools not have allow you to get extensions on time???

Doing it also proves you're a moron who doesn't have the necessary skills to represent a client. It'd be like getting a driver's license when someone else did the driving part; you'd be a danger to everyone on the road.

I sure don't want a surgeon operating on me who cheated his way through med school, do you?

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